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hegelian

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It kinda has a similar problem to the Hegelian dialectic that Marx built his stuff on.

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Quick take

A follower of Hegel's philosophy.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A follower of Hegel's philosophy.

adjective

(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the philosophical system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hegelian.

noun

A follower of Hegel's philosophy.

adjective

(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the philosophical system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).

Example sentences

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It kinda has a similar problem to the Hegelian dialectic that Marx built his stuff on.

2

Plain old Critical Theory you should study to understand how people today are subtly manipulated (the Hegelian dialectic is a good start).

3

In fact as a postmarxist Foucault was revolting against the dominance of Hegelian thinking.

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It's fear mongering, and you're disregarding Hegelian dialectics by arguing in such logical extremes.

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His obscurantist style is a regression to the worst excesses of post-hegelian academic discourse.

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Which is an instance of the Hegelian Dialectic, which is itself bullshit.

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We are not on some Hegelian march towards a preordained future.

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That would be true if abstraction were a cosmic force that radiated in all directions equally, a Hegelian horror trip anihilating all meaning so to speak.

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The irony here is that your jaded insight is a retread of Fukuyama's 1992 framing of liberal democracy as a Hegelian end-state in _The End Of History_.

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That's an overly Hegelian analysis of the situation, but hopefully that gives a flavor of what I'm thinking about in juxtaposing the two events politically.

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The real issue is integrating opposing views -- the Hegelian dialectic where people take a thesis, antithesis, and turn it into a synthesis -- that's where actual understanding takes place.

12

It probably has nothing to do with it, but as I was reading your post it sounded very similar to the typical Hegelian approach to history and societies.

Quote examples

1

I found some references, including this one[1]: "As far as the philosophy of history is concerned, what is the first trait of the Hegelian vision of the Napoleonic hero?

2

Well, here's a Hegelian thought for you: the demise of Lisp in the AI circles, and then in the industry means that wasn't not "real" enough (in the Hegelian sense), it was just a temporary transition phase till newer languages got GC, reflexion, macros, metaprogramming, etc.

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What happened with Uber (AirBNB/etc...) is the classical case from Hegelian dialectic - when situation gets that bad, that "badness" is a fertile soil from which a principally new solution emerges which fundamentally changes the situation - in western world such process is called "disruption".

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I found most books/papers to be derivative or more of a documentation of humanities people's self-referential knowledge (e.g., explaining all of the literary (Grego-Roman, Biblical and Celtic) allusions and historical context in "Ulysses"; and therefore, all of these allusions fit in this grand theory of {Hegelian Dialectic, Post-modernity}).

Proper noun examples

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I wish I was well versed into dialectic/Hegelian thought as I am sure there's a way of seeing this as a step towards abolition of private property altogether.

2

There is in fact a clear line of descent in terms of the reasoning and discoveries made which can be traced from the Pre-Socratics to the critical romantic enlightenment strains of Kantian and Post-Hegelian philosophy, ending ultimately in a series of complex distortions wrought by the Marxist school.

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As for Bergson, I see him as a kind of rival to the entire Husserlian tradition, Heidegger in particular; addressing the same questions regarding science and the difficulties of post-Kantian, post-Hegelian epistemology in the modern world, but much clearer and therefore less subject to the cult of interpretation that seems to be the domain of French phenomenology.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use hegelian in a sentence?

It kinda has a similar problem to the Hegelian dialectic that Marx built his stuff on.

What does hegelian mean?

A follower of Hegel's philosophy.

What part of speech is hegelian?

hegelian is commonly used as noun, adjective.